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* Prime locations                                             ***
* by Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N.H. Albers, Kristian Behrens ***
* Published in American Economic Review: Insights             ***
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This folder contains the following data files

primepoints_includingHQs.dta			Stata file containing bid data establishments queried from the Google Places API and scraped from company websites.
						We use Google’s Nearby Places API to scrape the coordinates of all Places of Interest (POI) associated
						with specific keywords and located in our sample of global cities. Our paper's appendix contains a detailed description.
			
				
						In addition, we identify additional `global' establishments manually. This includes global industry leaders (either named so by 
						the Financial Times and respective industry magazines) for the following: Top-4 Accountancy and Tax Firms, Top-5 Consultancies, Top-10 Law Firms,
						Top-10 Investment Banks, top-3 Insurances. We also code the location of stock exchanges and central banks as well as the HQs of as well as the HQs of all
						tradable service companies listed in the respective countries' index. We then retrieve the coordinates (or addresses) of all the offices of the respective
						companies via their websites.

				

primepoints_global_CompanyNames.dta		This file contains the same set of `global' establishments' that we manually collected. The only difference is that it also contain the name of the companies. 
						This allows for producing Appendix Table A.2.3 (while the file without names allows for quicker computations because of the absence of string data).


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